Re increase in media coverage.
The present trend on the internet on peak oil seems to be down- whereas there is an slight upwards trend in the Blogsphere.

Google trends says:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=peak+oil&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0

and Blogpulse says ( last 6 months:)
http://www.blogpulse.com/trend?query1=peak+oil&label1=peak+oil&query2=&l...

kind regards/And1

"Peak Oil" is not the only words searched on when people are trying to discover when oil peaks. "Oil Production" is the word I most often search on because I want to know who is up and who is down in oil production this month.

Oil Production gives an entirely different profile and in the Blogpulse, well over twice as many hits.

And there are many other words peak oilers search on. Just measuring the hits for "Peak Oil" does not give an accurate picture of things.

Ron Patterson